15 Passengers Killed, 3 Injured In a Traffic Accident in Sana’a

YemenExtra

M.A.

Fifteen passengers, including women and children, were killed and three others wounded in a traffic accident in Sana’a governorate on Sunday, the director of Bain Matter district reported.

The director Abdullatif Al-Lamzi said that a sedan hit a mass transport bus in Matnah area of Bani Matar district, which led to the death of all those on board the car and wounding three passengers in the bus.

Moreover, the wounded victims were rushed to Matna Hospital.

Al-Lamzi said speed was the leading cause of the accident.

The accident came a day after a transport bus overturned in the western governorate of Mahweet, in the road linking Sana’a and Hudayda west of Yemen, in which the driver and a passenger died while 18 others sustained various injuries.